In several seats of Greater Kolkata, the TMC seems to be taking the BJP head-on. No one can overlook this conclusion that the swell in vote share is going to reap dividends for the saffron party.
According to a BJP supporter at Dumdum area in the city, the increase in tally may turn the tables for Rajnath Singh-led party and it may not have to depend on Mamata’s support to form the government in Delhi. However, Mamata may have to bank on the BJP to keep her ship steady at Writers’ Building.
Mamata may be well-aware of this fact and though on one hand she is taking digs at Modi, on the other she is also charging the BJP, Congress and CPI-M of ‘working together’.
The basis of this confidence among the common people is that the BJP will eat into the vote shares of Congress and TMC. This may lead to a situation which could compel the TMC to join hands with the saffron party.
Due to this changed equation, the party’s national leadership has suddenly started expecting big from West Bengal. In spite of BJP wave in 1999, the party could garner only two seats. However, it was successful in getting TMC’s support back then.
Though the BJP’s hold in eastern regions of the country is weak, its performance in West Bengal has been most disappointing. Taking this very fact into account, BJP maintained silence over Mamata’s repeated attacks on the party.
In spite of a number of allegations leveled by the TMC chief, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi only said that Delhi needs a ‘strict headmaster’ to ensure that the Bengal government functions in a proper manner.
Besides, in a cautious move of not to upset Mamata, the party also did not include the demand of Gorkhas in its manifesto even when it bagged 2.5 lakh votes from the region in the 2009 general elections.
The air however changed in a few days and taking a note of it, Modi has trained his guns on Mamata. He made a public criticism of Saradha chit fund scam for the first time. He further escalated the fight by saying that Mamata’s government in the state is a fake ‘poriborton’ (change).
By grasping the mood of states’ voters, Modi has started giving it back to Mamata and the ground realities of West Bengal lends strength to these claims.
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